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What Did People Use Before Google to Search the Web?

The year is 1997. You’re wearing whatever people wore back then—some kind of jean jacket, I’m guessing—and talking to your friend about your new favorite movie, the recently released Mike Myers vehicle Austin Powers. You’re quoting the movie, and your friend thinks this is hilarious. Then things take a dark turn. “I thought Randy Quaid…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Jul 20

CNN Blurs Faces of U.S. Secret Police in Viral Video

CNN aired a viral video on Sunday of U.S. secret police kidnapping people in Portland, Oregon—a tactic that White House officials say could be coming to several other cities in the coming weeks. CNN made an odd journalistic choice to blur the faces of the police in the video, but CNN’s Jake Tapper took to…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 20

A 14,000-Year-Old Human Poop and the Best Human Brain Alternative: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Sometimes, the world is just so unbelievable that it’s hard to find words to describe it. In those situations, since I have no words, I look for the next best thing: something to make me laugh. And I don’t know if it’s because I communicate very well with my inner child or what, but there…

Tech News Jody Serrano Jul 20

Trump Says He Will Not Consider National Mask Mandate in U.S., Country With Worst Coronavirus Outbreak in the World

President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that he would not consider issuing a nationwide mandate requiring people to wear masks to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, effectively adding fuel to the ridiculous debate on masks in the U.S. In the interview, which aired on Sunday, Trump told host…

Tech News Jody Serrano Jul 19

Helen Hunt Reminisces about Twister‘s Thrilling and Stormy Production

Well, mostly it involved a lot of things getting thrown at her. Which I suppose makes sense, considering. Twisteris a stunning, wild disaster movie, a chronicle of tornado chasers, life-threatening storms, and love. Starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, it made bank at the time and is remembered now as a cheesy but really impressive…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 19

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 Pool Testing, Which Analyzes Multiple Samples at Once

Faced with the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the world and long wait times for test results, the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday issued the first emergency use authorization for covid-19 pool testing, a form of testing that allows up to four samples to be tested at once using the same test. The real-time PCR…

Health Jody Serrano Jul 19

Neil Gaiman and Director Dirk Maggs Talk the Massive Undertaking That Is the Sandman Audio Drama

Audible is putting out a huge project, starting this past week: a full-length audio drama adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, taking Audible’s normal focus on audiobooks to the next level. Directed by Dirk Maggs and starring James McAvoy as Dream, it sounds like it’s going to be a pretty impressive thing, and it was…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy Jul 19

I’m Confused About Bantha Poodoo and So Is Everyone Else

Bantha poodoo is the most notorious insult in Star Wars—well, maybe tied for nerfherder. And I have to admit some confusion. Okay, so, to get us all up to speed: the term “Bantha poodoo” or “poodoo” is used in three mainline Star Warsmovies as an insult or curse, first seen in Return of the Jedi,…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 19

Zachary Quinto and Khary Payton Join the Impressive Voice Cast of Amazon’s Invincible

It’s been a hot minute since we’ve heard much of anything about Amazon’s animated adaptation of Invincible, the Robert Kirkman comic. But it looks like it’s still on the way, and it’s got some new names attached, to boot. Yesterday, it was announced that two new names would be joining the star-studded voice cast leading…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 19

Trump Campaign Launches Online Ads Urging Supporters to Sign a ‘Petition’ to Ban TikTok

As we all know, President Donald Trump isn’t one to forget the people or things he believes have “wronged” him. It therefore comes as no surprise that Trump’s campaign has launched an online ad campaign urging his supporters to sign a “petition” to ban TikTok weeks after apparently getting trolled by teens on the platform…

Tech News Jody Serrano Jul 18

Twitter Says Attackers Downloaded Account Information, Which Includes Direct Messages, From Some in Hack

Twitter has released new details about the hack heard round the world this week, which is apparently a massive scam that aimed to get users to send bitcoin to a random cryptocurrency wallet. It was carried out by targeting some of the highest profile accounts on the social media network, such as those belonging to…

Privacy & Security Jody Serrano Jul 18

Robert Picardo Is Having a Lot of Fun With His Star Trek Legacy

Robert Picardo played the prickly, arrogant, but wonderfully realized Doctor AI on Star Trek: Voyager, and in recent weeks he’s been having some fun with his legacy. In early July, he posted a video to his YouTube channel, a bluesy lament called “Spent My Life an Actor,” which turns from a life history quickly into…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 18

The Showrunner for Peacock’s Brave New World Discusses the Challenges of Adapting the Classic Dystopia

One of Peacock’s flagship premieres, as it launched this past week, was Brave New World, a TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, one of the oldest and most iconic takes on the science fiction dystopia. But it’s hard to adapt a future made with the knowledge of 1932 without making a few modifications. Talking…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 18

George Romero’s Sprawling Zombie Novel The Living Dead Will Be Posthumously Released Next Month

With help from writer Daniel Kraus, Romero’s written zombie magnum opus is ready to finally see the harsh light of day. When the legendary horror creator died in 2017, George Romero was working on a novel—The Living Dead, a massive, multi-perspective epic detailing a society overrun by zombies. The book, taking a global perspective, was…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 18

The Bob’s Burgers Quarantine Short Gets Straight to the Point

Quarantine? It’s boring. Next question. Animation is one of the only mass media products that’s able to operate with some level of normalcy right now, seeing as how it doesn’t technically require anyone to be in the same room together. This means that some of our best documents about what it feels like to live…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 18

David Lynch’s New Music Video Is a Small, Potent Dose of Surrealism

David Lynch’s YouTube channel is a blessing. A place for the famed surrealist director to indulge his artistic habits in small, bite-sized slice of life updates like daily weather reports and updates on his woodworking, its emergence in 2020 has been one of the few comforting, stable things I’ve found myself returning to. But sometimes,…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 18

Researchers Created an App That Monitors Your Mental Health by Tracking Your Data

Even though I appreciate that it’s for a good cause, this app still sounds like something out of Minority Report. Researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada have developed a smartphone app that tracks a person’s mental health based on how they use their phone, CBC reports. The hope is that by keeping tabs on patients…

Health Alyse Stanley Jul 18

This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today

Scores of websites and services went down Friday afternoon due to problems with Cloudflare’s DNS service, sparking rampant speculation about the cause. After all, a global DDOS attack would totally fit the real-life apocalypse movie that 2020 is increasingly turning into. The outage, which started shortly after 5 p.m. ET, brought down popular sites and…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jul 17

The Ballad of Black Tom‘s a Spellbinding Horror to Revisit Right Now

The mid-1920s New York of Victor LaValle’sThe Ballad of Black Tom is a sprawling metropolis that’s well on its way to becoming a different kind of powerful place. That’s thanks to the machinations of a select few with knowledge of the old gods that exist separate from their own. As the ‘20s roar on and…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 17

Revel Suspended More Than 1,000 NYC Riders in the Last Month for Being Reckless Idiots

If you live in a city with a shared motor scooter program, you’ve likely spotted at least one reckless driver zipping down the street without any regard for basic traffic rules or safety. Maybe the rider or riders failed to wear a helmet, or maybe they were riding on sidewalks or bike lanes. I’ve personally…

Tech News Catie Keck Jul 17

What Did People Use Before Google to Search the Web?

CNN Blurs Faces of U.S. Secret Police in Viral Video

A 14,000-Year-Old Human Poop and the Best Human Brain Alternative: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Trump Says He Will Not Consider National Mask Mandate in U.S., Country With Worst Coronavirus Outbreak in the World

Helen Hunt Reminisces about Twister‘s Thrilling and Stormy Production

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 Pool Testing, Which Analyzes Multiple Samples at Once

Neil Gaiman and Director Dirk Maggs Talk the Massive Undertaking That Is the Sandman Audio Drama

I’m Confused About Bantha Poodoo and So Is Everyone Else

Zachary Quinto and Khary Payton Join the Impressive Voice Cast of Amazon’s Invincible

Trump Campaign Launches Online Ads Urging Supporters to Sign a ‘Petition’ to Ban TikTok

Twitter Says Attackers Downloaded Account Information, Which Includes Direct Messages, From Some in Hack

Robert Picardo Is Having a Lot of Fun With His Star Trek Legacy

The Showrunner for Peacock’s Brave New World Discusses the Challenges of Adapting the Classic Dystopia

George Romero’s Sprawling Zombie Novel The Living Dead Will Be Posthumously Released Next Month

The Bob’s Burgers Quarantine Short Gets Straight to the Point

David Lynch’s New Music Video Is a Small, Potent Dose of Surrealism

Researchers Created an App That Monitors Your Mental Health by Tracking Your Data

This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today

The Ballad of Black Tom‘s a Spellbinding Horror to Revisit Right Now

Revel Suspended More Than 1,000 NYC Riders in the Last Month for Being Reckless Idiots

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